Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$4.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1929. 4th impression. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with red lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Mild tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting:. DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON. Jonathan Cape Ltd London 1929, 1929.
Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Description: Fair (no dj, grey cloth very brown on spine , cloth on backstrip is split in several places and has been re-glued to spine with minor loss top and bottom, rear hinge heavily cracked and paper of front hinge cracked, illustrated colour endpapers clean and bright but front endpaper becoming loose, small pencil signature reverse of front endpaper, top page edges dusty, touch of faint browning page edges and one central page has brown patch where bookmark has been left inside book, small mark one page, no scribble or foxing to pages) octavo 319pp. First edition. Bright colour frontispiece, 1 colour plate and many pp b/w illustrations.
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: All proceeds go to the charity SOL (Services for Open Learning) - an educational charity (registered charity number: 1019182). Please feel free to ask us any questions. Cover well worn - Spine discoloured but good reading copy. Written and Illustrated by Hugh Lofting
Seller: SOLBOOKS, BARNSTAPLE, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$8.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . no dustjacket, 1929 1st, illus, very slight fading to pages, clean copy
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle In The Moon. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$8.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is sunned to page ends. No DJ.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1929.
Price: US$8.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: second impression. Colour illustrated end papers. Owner name in colour pencil plus a few pencil marks on copyright page. 319pp
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Lofting Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office. Jonathan Cape, London, 1929.
Price: US$10.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: fourth impression, beige cloth worn and damaged, inner hinges cracked, text block clean and sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$11.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . no dustjacket, 1929 2nd imp, wear to spine, name on end paper, very slight tanning to end paper
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION 1929, 8vo, 205 x 130 mm, 8 x 5¼ inches, grey cloth, purple decoration and lettering, colour illustrated endpapers, 288 pages. Coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Slightly faded on spine, small very pale stain to upper cover, edges faintly foxed, no inscriptions, contents very nice. Very good plus (lacking dustwrapper). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office. Jonathan Cape, UK, 1929.
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th imp. soiling to bds. spine ends and corners bumped and frayed. split to spine at illustrated endpapers. Colour illus to frontis. a few b/w illus to text coloured in with crayon. bindings loosening to some text pages. soiling/foxing to some text pages.
Seller: Harry Righton, evesham, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1929.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second impression. Grey cloth boards with red lettering, lacking dustwrapper; 319pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills by the author. Titles faded to spine; light foxing to page block edges; previous owner gift inscription to half-title page. [420: H3]
Seller: Jenny Wren Books, Maidstone, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'Doctor Dolittle in the Moon' by Hugh Lofting. Jonathan Cape 1929 first edition. Age darkening to the spine. Good condition. No dust jacket.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Colour frontispiece, doublepage colour endpapers + [70 as listed] full page plates [printed one side only] by Hugh Loftingillustrator listed as Hugh Lofting. 8vo grey cloth with purple titling to cover, spine faded to tan, lettering sunned to blue (tips worn & spine head/foot frayed, boards sl.cocked, cover worn) 319pp +[1]p text end]. Name to pastedown, some signs of use & fingering but mostly marginal. Pages crisp & none loose, no colouring or annotations. 1 volume.
Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom
Lofting Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1929.
Price: US$23.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's light grey cloth with title in purple on front board and on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Coloured frontispiece and 75 black and white illustrations. No inscriptions. 319 pages. Good illustrated dustwrapper showing a little edge wear and tear and now protected in a removable cover.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the moon. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Description: Binding tight; spine a little yellowed, with wear at head & foot Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$28.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Doctor Dolittle in the Moon' by Hugh Lofting. Jonathan Cape 1929 first edition. A few very faint marks to the boards. A little light foxing. Near VG. No dust jacket.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh (1886-1947). Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.320. With a colour frontispiece, one colour plate, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with deep purple titles to spine and upper. Blue ink gift inscription to verso of fly-leaf. Toning and spotting to edges. Spine very heavily rubbed and toned, with joints starting and fraying to head and tail. Fair. The eighth in the Dolittle series, published a year after the US edition.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Jonathan Cape, London, 1929.
Price: US$44.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 320. Plates, some in colour. Pictorial endpapers. Original cloth, slightly marked, spine darkened and with wear to head and foot.Inscription to half title.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
LOFTING, HUGH. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$83.43 + shipping
Description: First edition. Coloured frontispiece, pictorial title, b&w plates; coloured pictorial endpapers. 8vo, original grey grained cloth blocked in purple; an excellent copy both in binding and internally. 1930's gift inscription on half-title. In the very good dust jacket with applied coloured illustration as issued. The dust jacket darkened at the backstrip, some creasing and slight fraying at headband and wear to corners but overall very presentable. Stated "First Published MCMXXI" on verso of title and no mentiion of a later impression. However the price of 5/- appears on the backstrip of the dust wrapper and the rear flap has the printed note at head "NOTE: The Dolittle books are now all available at 5s. net". Thus this may be indeed the first edition but with a later issue dust jacket ?
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle In The Moon. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$89.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, no dust wrapper. 1st Edition - published by Jonathan Cape, London 1929. Publisher's original, grey fine ribbed cloth, front title lettered in purple and spine lettered in blue. Illustrated end papers in colour. First Edition, 1st printing, 1929. No inscriptions. A very nice copy. Uncommon.
Seller: Alice Through The Looking Glass, London, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle on the Moon. Jonathan Cape., London, 1929.
Price: US$128.35 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very nice copy in clean, unworn, pale grey boards. Binding firm. Text bright and immaculate. No foxing. No inscriptions. Colour plate frontis. and one other opp. page 57, as listed. B&w illustration to page 119 showing Doctor Dolittle stepping out, the doctor has been water-coloured in a neat, possibly, adult hand, well-done and in suitable colours! Unclipped but slightly shabby DJ is complete apart from 2mm x 5mm chip from rather worn edge of slightly dust-darkened spine. Upper edges all round are dust-darkened. 5mm split to right hand corner of front neatly mended from inside.In clear plastic removable wrapper.
Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON. Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Price: US$134.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1929. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Grey cloth, purple titles and borders. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Spine is browned, with some damp marks to edges. Chipping and fraying to cloth, especially to bottom edge of front cover. Some foxing and page browning, but contents are generally very good. Wrapper is very browned and marked; some damp stains, chipping, with a little loss and tears/creasing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh.. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon.. Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1929.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 320 pp. Told and Illustrated by Hugh Lofting. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A few tiny spots to cloth and slight creasing at the extremities of the spine; a tight, sound, attractive copy in a lightly tanned jacket with several small chips at corners and one 1/2" tear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
LOFTING, Hugh.. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$224.61 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression. As noted on the dust jacket, "this new tale of Doctor Dolittle tells of his adventures in the moon whither he journeys on the back of a giant moth". The title was first published in the US the preceding year. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in purple, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece, 1 colour plate, and 69 black and white plates by the author. Contemporary gift inscription to half-title. Very slightly skewed, spine tips slightly bumped; a very good copy. Light browning to dust jacket with spine toned, minor loss to head of spine and extremities slightly worn; a good example of an unclipped jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1929.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Illustrated by Lofting as well. Octavo, 320 pp.; decorative orange & black jacket with illustration; matching decorative boards with the illustration as a pastedown; illustrated endpapers. Near Fine copy, corners just touched, presumed slight darkening of page edges, nominal soil. Jacket has one moderate chip at top left front, some darkening of spine, less darkening elsewhere. Please see scans. One of those uniquely magical Hugh Lofting Tales brought to a rather surreal life by his equally magical illustrations - this one giving us a moon as some of us wishes it were. L-36n
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.